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Note Rush: Music Reading Game 4+
Learn notes on your instrument
Thomas Grayston
Designed for iPad
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- £8.99
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Description
Learn to Read Music with Note Rush! Note Rush boosts your note reading speed and accuracy, building a strong mental model of where each written note is on your instrument. Now even better with Note Rush: 2nd Edition!
How it Works
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Note Rush is like a virtual flash card deck for all ages that listens to you play each note, giving instant feedback and awarding stars based on speed and accuracy of note identification.
Race against the clock to improve your performance or hide the timer to gently engage those just starting out with the staff.
Includes built-in levels for piano and a range of other instruments as well as custom level design.
What makes Note Rush Different?
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- Play On Your Instrument
Note reading is best learnt in the context of how you identify and play each note - on your acoustic or MIDI instrument.
- Designed for Teachers
...and not as a replacement for them! Create fully customizable note sets and easily send them home to students.
- Fun Themes
Engage with fun themes that don't get in the way of learning, or opt for traditional notation.
Landmarks: The best way to learn your notes
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Note Rush fits with all teaching methods, whether you favor a purely intervallic approach or use traditional mnemonics! We promote learning key landmark notes then reading adjacent notes intervallically for the best results in learning to read piano notation.
Note Rush features a unique landmarks-based hints system (optional) that highlights nearby landmark notes to read intervallically from. Over time students naturally move from reliance on landmarks to a more intrinsic staff-to-keyboard association.
Preset and Custom Levels
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Use preset note ranges or create your own set of levels to suit your teaching style. Create a personalized level to target a particular student’s needs.
- Individual Note Selections
- Sharps and Flats
- Treble, Bass or Grand Staff (alto and tenor coming soon)
- Up to Six Ledger Lines
- Send custom note reading drills using App Links or QR Codes
What’s New
Version 2.01.2
Lots of improvements/fixes in this update:
- Improvements to the Audio Recognition Engine.
- Level Designer has now been given its own dedicated tab at the top of the level selection screen, as it has proven difficult to find in the instrument list!
- Fixed: Note not blinking on incorrect note input.
- Fixed: Total time on level completion sometimes shows 1 second more than the correct time due to a rounding error. (Thanks Michael Cuthbert)
- Fixed: MIDI input not handling NoteOn(velocity=0) as a NoteOff event, which could be causing issues with MIDI behaviour more broadly. (Thanks Peter Ludbey)
- Decreased how long you have to play a non-concert pitch note to calibrate to it.
- Increased sensitivity to incorrect notes (you had to play it for a long time before it registered before).
- Increase tuning requirements to help reduce misidentified semitone-adjacent notes.
Ratings and Reviews
Good as Beginner Harpist who Struggles with Sight Reading
I got the app after watching the video from Josh Layne. The app is good. Not perfect, but so far is the best on the market. I don’t normally pay for apps but the one-time fee is worth it. Think of it as skipping out on 2 expensive coffee orders. I’m beginning to learn to play the pedal harp so I start off with tuning my harp in flat and then change the pedals to the neutral position. I prefer the app to flash card sight reading apps because it’s one thing to be able to be able to identify the note e.g an A but it is another thing to play it and the random nature of the notes appearing on the screen really gets you used to it.
Yes, sometimes you have to play the note twice but overall the learning and progress I have made is worth it. I think it’s best to start off with getting comfortable identifying the note using flash cards and then after that use the app. The app also works well with flat and sharp notes so as a pedal harpist it helps you to learn how to move the pedals. I wish it had practice on playing multiple notes at the same time or chords or tunes. But other than that the app is good. I have no regrets and I recommend it.
Absolutely Superb.
I felt compelled to write a review because this is so much better than any other app I’ve tried of this kind. It’s really well designed, it functions well and all the kids love it. The hints are a great idea, well executed and it’s really helping the pupils think about reading the notes in the right way. Using this app just a routine part of the lessons I teach with beginners now.
Note to the developers: It would be nice to have a “training mode” option where the timer could be disabled so the people can practise using the hints and taking their time, aiming for accuracy without feeling tempted to rush faster and/or guess.
Fantastic App 5 stars!!!
As a piano teacher I'm using this app lots, the kids love it and its great way to enforce note reading and lovely way to end or begin lessons.
Students are trying to beat each others scores and will do as I say as long as they can play this game! I love the football and space modes. You can even choose and create your own level with any range of notes!
I feel like I've been waiting for the app for years. A personal thank you from me for this brilliant well, thought out app!
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Information
- Provider
- Thomas Grayston
- Size
- 292.6 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+, Made for Ages 9 to 11
- Copyright
- © 2016 Thomas Grayston
- Price
- £8.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.